March 2010 Grocery Challenge

aplaceinthesun

Updating yesterdays spends ....

£1.60. - local Spar shop - offers
£21.35. - fruit veg and salad box + doz. FR eggs - deliv wednesday
£10.65. - mystery shopping meal out cost £25.65. , reimbursed £15.00.
(not sure if this should be part of GC budget yet but will record it here for now...)

ETA - found a receipt on the table from DH - £2.09. in Co-op as well... oh dear , soooomuch spent on day 1 already !

Must have a NSD today..... !

highland_fling_2

Good morning all,

having quiche and salad for tonights tea as I have a really long day at work ahead and think this will be quick and easy.
Hoping for a NSD as I wont have time to think about shopping today.

Have a good day everyone

katenut

Morning everyone hope you are all having a nice sunny morning
Ooops, I spent £93.63 yesterday! This has totally filled our storecupboard and freezer, so hopefully will only need fresh items for the rest of the month. A bit scared that I've spent over half our budget in one day though!
Need lots of NSD's this month, just need to avoid the lure of the shop on the way home from work

83rachel

Hi all, i just worked it out and i can save money by shopping online (ok thats not new news) but last time i got a delivery from asda it was a nightmare, does anyone know if tesco take visa electron i can't find it on there website (and i just got one of those clubcard thingies)

little_miss_moneysaver_3

Hi Mrs M,
Please put me down for £100 for March to include food and household bits.
Need to finish my meal planner tomorrow and go for my big shop

Thanks,
LMMS

aplaceinthesun

83rachel wrote: »

Hi all, i just worked it out and i can save money by shopping online (ok thats not new news) but last time i got a delivery from asda it was a nightmare, does anyone know if tesco take visa electron i can't find it on there website (and i just got one of those clubcard thingies)

Last time I tried , a few months back, they didnt take Electron .... :mad:

83rachel

aplaceinthesun wrote: »

Last time I tried , a few months back, they didnt take Electron .... :mad:

Thank you.. thats really annoying, its like they dont want my money. i'm not using asda again after there customer service last time so i think i will just use the butcher and nip into boots for toiletries.

XSpender

Morning All

Reporting my spends from the weekend:

Mr M - £64.55
Mr T - £9.32
B00ts - £4.84

And a very naughty chinese and Mac Ds start to the month costing £17.76:o

DH and I are having an 'eat the contents of the freezer' month in March to allow us to save some money and space to stock up in April ready for when the baby arrives in early May.

I have also started costing our meals out and am aiming for £2.50/day per person, not as low as some budgets and threads I know but a huge saving for me and a good place to start. Take aways are banned this month too;)

Annual figure up dated on sig.

eveie189

Hi all

Can I be put down for £300 this month please?
Wish I didn't have to as we have been waaayyy over for last 2 months and budget was £100 more but my maternity pay has just finished and it looks like I won't be able to claim jobseekers so we literally have NO money. Don't quite know how I am gonna do this with 3 kids (one of which on formula and 2 in nappies) and a DH with a huge apetite, oh and then theres me who is ultra fussy. I don't even eat potatoes so looks like I am on cereal for the month.

patentgirl

Morning all

Placed an order with Mr T last night should be about £60 after discounts but will amend later managed to get a code off here as well so all helps quite a big bulk of my money but only need to get meat from butchers to see me through next couple of weeks just been going through recipes at beginning of thread for some different meal ideas going to do some baking as well tonight as DH is away on course for couple of nights so will give me something to do
Just going to update my signature good luck everyone for March